I was supposed to use brown sheep nature spun sport for these socks for my father, but the yarn lady sold me cherry tree hill & koigu instead.
it says in the pattern to use size 1 or size to obtain gauge, but the website that sells bsns says size 5? and my koigu label says size 3 (the other says nothing!)? so I can use a size 0 and that's fine?
can I completely disregard labels in general when I'm knitting socks & do you think it's more important to get gauge or how tight the stitches feel when they're knit? can they be too tight? and how do I know whether it's too tight? is tighter better for socks?

both my yarns are fingering, but the pattern is sport?
is this bad?
why is the pattern yarn thicker but the stitches (according to the gauge anyway) smaller???
I am so confused - how can anyone knit smaller when I am pulling the yarn so tight?

but - aside from that - so you think I should just recalculate all the inc and decr and all that? is it hard for a sock?